I enjoyed the videos Bubba, just watched all three. Was thinking maybe you're a normal bloke after all Well with a talent obviously. Seasons greetings Sir.

 

Same to you, COB. I'm very much a normal bloke, actually. I just have the tendency to let my horrible, irritated side boil over onto internet forums, which gives me a bad reputation to live up to.

 

Joking aside, I think the world of you and you damn well know it
I am loving these updates and the workmanship is first class

 

Common ground. I consider our 'disagreements' a thing of the past. Best of luck with this/future pieces and I wish you & yours a happy new year

 

He's a pussycat.

 

Me? How?

 

More, for your delectation:



Eye remodelling (ongoing)

 

Happy new year, everyone!

 

you made that? far too much time on your hands

 

Yeah, about 300 hours so far.

 

In your next video. Can you say, up north, Sky digital, and it isn't in the tin?

 

Tintintin? What's odd about that? :sus:

Just recalculated - it's only 250 hours.

 

Simile didn't work

 

Thought you came over as quite professional mate. Better than some i`ve seen ont `elly As your so good at the teeth maybe you should take up dentistry, you`d get paid a lot more

 

Indeed. It was like a penguin climbing a tree.

 

Bubba, so what is your day job then? (sorry if you have mentioned it before)

 

I'm a technician, in education - but I have been a joiner for quite a few years.

 

those carvings are an incrediable display of skill

well done

 

Well you certainly have a dedication to your passion and hobby, I suppose spending the amount of time you have on the carving so far you don't get out much

 

I'm annoyed that I have to go back to work tomorrow. If I could, I'd spend eight hours a day on this project, no problem. I'm just so chilled and engrossed while I'm doing it.

 

Thanks, Jef. I understand you sculpt muscle - that's far harder work.

 

Just a regular update. The only real notable thing is that I've started to carve right through the mouth and I've been treating the teeth with thinned shellac - it's a tip i've picked up off the net which is supposed to stabilise short/ difficult grain. It really works and I'm most impressed.

 

lol anyone can build muscle tho, with good effort.

what you do takes skill, id get so far, an then chip a full tooth off lol,

start again!! haha

my uncles done life size, bear and eagle carvings the, eagle in fliight carrying a fish, out of stone tho, and i though they were impressive.

i really appreciate the time and real skill involved in any of that

to you mate

 

Thanks for that, Jef.

Something's not right. I've been struggling with it tonight.

 

It is very impressive I must say, and without doubt takes a lot of skill

May I ask - what's with the cracks and can you not do anything with them?

 

Amazing skill

 

Looks great to me

 

It's called checking, and it's a pitfall of using recently-felled wood that hasn't dried out or been properly seasoned. The wet, soft, outer sapwood loses its moisture quickly and shrinks, while the drier, harder heartwood loses it more slowly and shrinks less. I hope to carve out most of the heartwood, which might help the checking to close up over the next year or so. I will use cabinet makers' filling wax to fill any remaining checks.

 

It's the relative positions of the nostril and antorbital fenestra which are wrong. Plus, two deep holes have appeared - not very big, but quite obvious.

It'll be all right.

 

Panic over - I think I've rescued it.